A PUZZLE ON THE STAGE!
A new play: Intrigue, is just about to open in Whitehall. The play includes a very clever, convincing death scene, and Queen Elizabeth is desperate to see it before the rest of her country. But when the Queen and her court go to watch, the death scene is far too convincing - in fact, it's real! Richard Fitzgrey is murdered in front of the Queen!
Leaf through the pages of the daybooke of Lady Grace, favourite Maid of Honour of Queen Elizabeth I, and enter a theatrical world full of mystery . . .
Lady Grace Cavendish was a Maid of Honour at the court of Queen Elizabeth, She became a ward of court after both her parents were tragically killed in the service of the Queen. Her daybooks, written for her own pleasure, have now reached a wide audience.
Title: The Lady Grace Mysteries: Intrigue
Author: Grace Cavendish
ISBN: 9781862304185
Binding:
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication Date: 2008-01-03
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.1407 kg
An excellent series * Through the Looking Glass *
The reader is quickly drawn into the intrigue and chilling atmosphere of court life * Primary Times *
A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed. Plenty of mileage left in this most excellent series and it provides so much accurate historical background, it should be compulsory reading for children! * gatewaymonthly.com *
Historical fiction written in an accessible style -- Narinder Dhami * Junior Education Plus *
The atmosphere of court life is brilliantly captured . . . One of the most promising series to be created in recent years * Monsters and Critics *